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I recently got my hands on a book. The publishing house PM Press sent me over a copy for free for, you know, consideration which I love.

Now, I'm not getting paid or anything, but the book was interesting, and that raised some questions that I'd like to discuss today.

The book in question is Life Under the Jolly Roger,

Reflections on the Golden Age of Piracy, by Gabriel Coon. Now, it's unapologetically

written from a radical perspective. Gabriel Coon is an anarchist anarchist philosopher and P.M. Press specializes in radical books.

I was curious as to how I would feel about this book.

I wondered, well I've read a lot of books about piracy, books from all kinds of different perspectives,

and I've seen a lot of them that were full of bias or more commonly that were trying to fit the story of pirates into a modern narrative.

I can't tell you how many interesting sounding books I've had to basically toss out because

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